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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 16, 1922
DOROTHY DALTON ATTEMPTS
UNUSUAL EXIT FROM STUDIO
Star Likes Overalls, and When "Thusly Rigged Out" Can't Resist
Temptation to Scale Few Back Fences.
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"Hey, Dorothy, that's Hot the right way to Bet out of the studio," Bert
Lytell wa shouting when the cameraman snapped the "still" picture.
S THE above photograph shows,
there are many Idle moments
on location. Players utilize the
time variously. Some read, some of
the women sew, sometimes the
waits between rehearsing and shots
are long and tedious. Milton Sills,
ex-professor at the University of
Chicago, likes to wander off by
himself and read heavy literature.
There is no, pose about it. It is
real, honest "headachy" stuff. .
But Dorothy Dalton, who began
her artistic career as a painter and
illustrator, and who still retains re
markable proficiency in that art,
apparently developed a proclivity
for back-fences during the wait on
this particular picture.
Dorothy loves overalls and rid
Columbia Books. Gripping
Film, "The Storm."
Universal Super-Veatnre Has Sen
sational Run In Eastern Cities.
CARL LAEMMLB has crashed
through with another big-time
picture in the Universal-Jewel su
per special, "The Storm," booked
for showing at the Columbia.
Mr. Laemmle's organization has
given th4 public some excellent at
tractions within recent months. The
list includes "Foolish Wives," "The
Trap," "Wild Honey," "Man to Man"
and "The Fox," and with "The
Storm,". Universal's feature offerings
this season have achieved a prestige
and a standard that is -distinctly
high class.
With House Peters starring, Reg
inald Barker directing and beautiful
Virginia Valli in so many fascinat
ing scenes, the release of "The
Storm" will he a real photoplay
event.
Mr. Barker has screened a won
derful forest fire, also a sequence
of thrilling scenes showing Miss
Valli In a canoe passing through
swift-running rapids, and if "The
Storm" had brought nothing else
than these shots to the screen the
production would still be given a
splendid rating among the- best cur
rent releases.
Those who are familiar with Lang
don McCormick's play, produced by
George Broadhurst, and played for
several seasons In the big cities and
on the road, will recall the gripping
plot with its intense love story and
its even more tense struggle be
tween the two men for the love "of
the girl a truly human document
In the strictest sense!
This is the story of Burr Winton
(House Peters), a big, honest bulk
of a woodsman, to whom God's great
outdoors as exemplified in the vast
Canadian northwest means every
thing, and David Stewart (Matt
Moore), an easy-going rounder of
the cities, who has seen too ,much
of women and is beginning to love
the straight, clean northwoods.
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Viola Dana, busily engaged in
making her latest picture, "Page
Tim O'Brien," for Metro, is very
proud of the livestock on her Holly
wood ,estate. A litter of pigs ar
rived the other day and Viola saun
tered down to look them over,
busily plying her knitting needles
as she walked across the lawn and
stood watching the infant porkers.
She was joined by . her sister, Shir
ley Mason, who, without any sign
of shame, said, "What are you do
ing, Viola, casting pearls before
swine?"
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Jackie Coogan has a new guide,
philosopher and friend; in other
worlds a new director. E. MSson
Hopper has been selected as the
man to pilot "the kid" through the
scenes of his forthcoming picture,
an original story. Work on the
story commences this week. This
marks the fifth starring vehicle for
this famous youngster.
Persistent rumors springing from
unaii!?rized reports that Thomas
H. Ince studios had been closed,
leased or sold have brought from
the veteran producer one of the
first public announcements issued
during the 14 years in which he has
been one of the leaders in the pic
ture industry. He has wired an
emphatic denial from New York to
his studio and associates there.
Edward M. Kimball, father of
Clara Kimball Young, is a recent
addition to the cast which Richard
Walton Tully has selected to sup
port Guy Bates Post in the filming
of "Omar, the Tentmaker." Tullyte
romantic love play of old Persia,
In which Post starred on the legiti
mate stage for four years. Kim
ing-breeches'; and it seems that
every time she gets rigged out in
overalls , she cannot resist the
temptation to scale a few back
fences. This time she was caught
in the attempt by Bert Lytell, who
at the moment the cameraman
snapped the "still", was shouting,
"Hey, Dorothy, that's not the right
way to get outof the studio!"
Miss Dalton Is working In "On the
High Seas" with another star with
whom she delights to Work Jack
Holt, one of the most popular men
in filmdom.
Bert Lytell, who, now that he is
with Paramount, will get some
good material with which . to
work, is appearing with Betty
Compson In "To Have and to Hold."
one of the season's forthcoming
biggest releases.
ball will play the brief but vivid
role of the innkeeper in whose tav
ern Omar Khayyam so often seeks
the inspiration for his immortal
quatrains. Kimball's last screen
engagement was as Brock, the
faithful family butler, in "The Mas
querader," the masterly photodrama
which marked the dourne debut of
Tully and Post in pictures.
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Some of the finest blue ribbon
winners of this1 season's Southern
California horse show are pictured
in "Rich Men's Wives;" the B. P.
Schulberg Special production which
was directed by Gasnien,and which
has House Peters and Claire Wind
sor for its chief actors.
The scenario, of the pictures called
for a few shots of the heroine a
great lover of horsesastride her
THE riEUCE OF
IS DUE
Charlie Ray Learns Some Neat Tricks About Gambling From Real
Sharks While Rehearsing for Production.
Charlie Ray in scene from his latest
in which he has vehicle entirely
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N THE plot of "The Deuce of
Spades," booked for early show
ing at the Rivoli, Charles Ray
falls a victim to one of the most
antiquated card tricks ever known.
The card sharper guarantees to
pick out the deuce of spades from
the covered deck and does so, de
spite the fact that Ray has already
stolen one deuce of spades from th
pack and hidden it in his pocket. !
Wishing to see how the real
sharpers worked, Ray gathered in
the toughest looking assortment of
card crooks that ever graced a mo
tion picture studio. -
Before the star's amazed eyes
they dealt out straight flushes, full
houses and fours of a kind without
the slightest hesitancy. They worked
the shell game, Xhey dealt from the
favorite thoroughbred, but inas
much as Los Angeles was enjoying
its annual spring horse show at the
time Gasnier commenced 'Rich
Men's Wives," he altered the orig
inal Prank Dazev-Aernes Christine
Johnson story to permit of ,the in- I
troduction of an incident having to
do with the famous fashionable ex
hibition of prize winning equines.
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Montreal is to pay special tribute
to Pauline Garon, whose work as
leading lady to Richard Barthelmess
in "Sonny" has won for her the dis
tinction of being one of the "com
ers" in filmdom. When "Sonny" i
shown in that city Miss Garon is to
be given a reception by her towns
people and given . the recognition
that accompanies 'fame. Miss Faron
was born in Montreal and is a grad
uate of the Sacred Heart convent of
that city.
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' "A regular thoroughbred" is the
term r the- men of 4he company of
"The Valley of Silent Men" applied
to petite Aima Rubens, who worked
for six weeks in the frozen north of
Canada in filming the picture?- Fall
ing down snow covered mountains,
climbing peaks, driving dog teams
and walking miles in knee-deep
snow were some of the. things Miss
Rubens did without complaint.
They didn't have to substitute any
glycerin. tears for real with Marion
Davies when, as unhappy Princess
Mary Tudor; she made the scene in
which she believes her lover, Charles
Brandon, is about to be executed in
"When Knighthood was in Flower."
The winsome young star was so
wrought up by the emotional de
mands of the scenes that she cried
nearly all day.
Novak Sisters to Appear in
Same Picture.
Mnrie CorelH's Famous Novel.
"Tbelmn," to Be Pot on the
Screen.
WO of the greatest stories to apr
by Marie Corelli and 'The Rock of
Ages" have been secured for Jane
Novak's next starring productions.
"Thelma," which is probably the
best known of Marie Corelli's works,
is a romance of the daughter of a
Norwegian viking and. will afford
Miss Slovak the greatest role of her
career, as it is the right story for
the right girl. The story is laid in
Norway and England. Preparations
are now under way to make "Thel
ma" one of the biggest screen pro
ductions of the year. In the chief
advisory role James Young is col
laborating with Chester Bennett in
screening the production. .
Immediately following the comple
tion of "Thelma,", work will be
started on "The Rock of Ages," a
powerful drama based upon the fa
mous hymn and painting. This pro
duction will be a notable event be
cause it will mark the first appear
anrce on the screen together of the '
Novak sisters. JSva Novak, younger
sister of Jane, and herself a star,
has been specially engaged to ap
pear as her sister's chief support.
. Wearing coats of tan as a result
of five weeks in the sun of Virginia,
Richard Barthelmess and his com
pany have returned to New York to
complete the ' filming of George
Washington - Ogden's story, "The
Bondboy," which will follow "Sonny"
as Mr. Barthelmess' next starring
venture. The company is most en
thusiastic in. its praise of southern
hospitality.
The common conception of orien
tal life, a conception that has been
largely fostered by stories, plays
and also pictures, is quite wrong,
according to Richard Walton Tully.
Many think that just because he
wears different clothes, practices
different customs and has a differ
ent religion, the oriental is hardly
human. We have seen him only In
the iiarem atmosphere, so to speak.
There his life is all war and licen
tiousness. But really he is 4 human
being, subject to the same Instincts
as we of the west. . .
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A prop man working with the Ir
vin Willat production for Para
mount, "The Siren Call," featuring
Dorothy Dalton, observed . grum
blingly to one of his mates:
"Now I suppose I've got to dig up
one of those blamed whistles "like
they use on ferryboats!" Such is
life in the movies.
SPADES
AT THE RIVOLI
production, "The Deuce of Spades,"
different from former offerings.
bottom . with such swiftness that
Ray never knew it until he wag told
afterwards; and they "covered1
cards with such ease that the star
was not aware of it until he was
told to count the deck. ,
By the time the rehearsal had
ended he knew his scene like a lul
iaby; but you can't fol him again
on a card trick.
iiney luraeo. ine stuaio Into, a
gambling den," he explained with a
grin, "but it was worth it. What I
didn't learn about sharp games isn't
worth knowing and I'm readv for
Last-Card-Jim, Strip-the-Deck-Harry
or anyone else who thinks he can
put one over. I've got their own
tools to work against them the
tricks that were given me by some
of the keenest men in that bus!
ness."
VALENTINO AND MAE MURRAY
ARE BOOKED FOR MAJESTIC
Two Prominent Stars Will Be Seen in the Special Release, "The
Delicious Little Deyil," Which Has Made Big Hit.
Rodolph Valentino and Mae Murray In scene from "The Delicious I.lrtle
Devil," which has been revamped and put Into a special release by
Universal. .
THE animated screen today pre
sents a no more romantic player
than,Rodolph Vantentino, who
is seen in support of Miss Mae Mur
ray in the Universal photoplay," "The
Delicious Little Devil,", which is to
play at the Majestic theater soon.
Mr. Valentino was born in Ta
ranto, Italy, where his family has
maintained a palatial estate for gen
erations. "
. At the age of 10 Valentino en
tered Perugia military academy,
where he continued through his high
school . yeaca and was later ap
pointed to the naval academy at
Venice.
Because of a slight optical trouble
he was refused a commissionfrand
Phyllis Haver Temporarily
Leaves Sennett.
Star Will Play In Big New
,:. Production.
IT WILL undoubtedly surprise
many to see another personality
Other than that of the beautiful
Phyllis Haver as leading comedi
enne in support ot Ben Turpin in
his next picture to follow the re
cently completed "Homemade Mo
vies." . :-
Through a special arrangement
with the Goldwyn Pictures corpora
tion Miss Haver has been engaged
to play Polly Love in Hall Caine's
story of "The Christian."'
Phyllis Haver is from vthat gal
axy of screen beauties whbvhelp to
uphold the belief that beauty and
brains need not be divorced, and be
cause a woman is beautiful it is no
sign that. she lacks intelligence.
With what one would almost term
uncanny foresight. Mack Sennett is
o-redited with picking from -the
thousands of aspirants for screen
fame more beautiful girls whose
histrionic talents have automatical
ly advanced them to stellar posi
tions in filmdom than any- other
producer. . I
Reviewing the list at stars promi
nent on the screen today, many of
them started their careers on the
lot of the comedy king, and of. those
who remained during the migratory
period, Phyllis Haver is certainly
the best known. Of this young lady,
who still remains a Sennett star. It
ran be said her beauty, grace and
intelligence have taken her into the
ranks of the screen's best paid ar
tists and into the affections and ad
miration of millions of fans th
world over.'
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Barbara La Marr,' the
beautiful
brunette who has come into fame in
the motibn picture world during the
past year, has been placed under
eontract. She will enact the leading
feminine role in t'Quincy Adams
Sawyer," which Clarence Badger
will direct. . : -
Miss La Marr has been with Me
tro six months. She played a prom
inent part in Rex Ingram's produc
tion of "The. Prisoner of Zenda" and
later was selected for the leading
feminine role in his latest photoplay.
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Jimmy Aubrey has finished his
latest funmaker, "The Chicken Pa
rade. He has the unpopular role
of a prohibition agent. If all the
revenue men were as efficient in
their efforts as the comedian, old
John Barleycorn would have died
the death long ago in this country.
Jimmy, by various devices, makes a
clean sweep of a ferocious gang of
bootleggers.
John Gilbert Recalls Line
That Proved Prophetic.
SItnation in "Monte Cristo" Re
vives Newspaper Days.
THERE was a strange element of
prophecy in an experience had
several years ago by John Gilbert,
who plays the part of, the count in
"Monte Cristo," the Fox special pro
duction based on the celebrated novel
by Alexander Dumas and to be re
leased this autumn.
Early in his Career Gilbert was a
newspaper reporter for a time. One
week all the boys in the city room
went "broke" Gilbert included. A
few minutes after the reporters had
been bewailing their financial de
pression an envelope came in the
mail to Gilbert. Opening it, he found
a check for $25 in payment for a
short story he had written for a
magazine.
In elation Gilbert leaped to his
feet and shouted, "the world is
mine" the famous line used by the
count of Monte Cristo after he comes
into possession of the world's great
est fortune. Another reporter, seeing
the check and. hearing the remark,
shouted, "Boys, here's the Count of
Monte Cristo," and Gilbert was
called "the count" as long as he re
mained on that paper.
Now, since the Fox picture has
shown indications that it will be one
of the biggest motion picture hits
ot the year, Gilbert recalls vividly
the prophetic incident -which "saved
the lives" of all the city room, long
before he even thought-of being an
actor, much less enacting the role
of the count in a special motion
picture production. h-.
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. When does a beard become "whis
kers"? That Is the question raised. by
Richard Pennell, Paramount player,
when someone tried to classify him
with a bunch of the unshorn, who
had responded to a- call from the
Lasky casting office for "whiskered
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types." Mr. Pennell has a , hand
came to America to pursue a dra
matic career. After several success
ful seasons on the vaudeville stage
he. returned to Italy to drive his flat
in the famous race between Rome
and Naples. He again visited Amer
ica and appeared on the vaudeville
stage with Joan Sawyer and Bonnie
Glass in a dancing act.
At the outbreak of the war Valen
tion took up aviation preparatory to
Joining his organization on the Ital
ian front.
In spite of the efforts of the Ital
ian consul in New York to have an
exception made in his case Valen
tino was again rejected from action
because of defective vision.
Mr. Valentino's screen career con
sists of appearing for Griffith, Ince,
Clara Kimball Young, Vitagraph and
Universal.
some imperial, and has imper
sonated the English sovereign in
several pictures, so he naturally was
indignant.
"Those men have whiskers," said
he, "but I have a beard!" Mr. Pen
nell is now playing an English gen
eral in "Pink Gods," the current pro
duction of Penrhyn Stanlaws, which
features Bebe Daniels and James
Kirkwood.
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J. Thornton Baston, now playing
In the Elmer Clifton production,
"Down to the Sea in Ships," ran
away from home when he was 14
years old to go on tfie stage. And
he saya he's never regretted it for
a minute, either.
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"No, sir," replied Walter Hiers, the
hefty comedian, in answer to a
query, "I'm not playing ghost in
Wallace Reid's Paramount picture,
'The Ghost Breaker." I'm too 'heavy
fo play a ghost, so they cast me as
the colored servant to the chap that
breaks the spirits of the spirits, if
you get me."
The unwisdom of defying the an
cient tradition that ill luck follows
walking under a ladder is shown in
"The Ladder Jinx," the new six-reel
comedy which Jess Robbina has just
,completed..The hero of the piece de
fies the jinx, and immediately gets
his fill of hard luck.
It was one of the hottest days of
the early summer In Hollywood
Wl Direction
National SJ1., It's.
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when the auction scene of "The Old
Homestead" was made for Para-1
mount under the direction, of James
Cruze. And it was a scene in the
good old winter time. The members
of the cast suffered silently in
woolen dresses, ear muffs-and furs.
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Setting a speed record excelled
only by the preceding picture, "Sat
urday Night," .Cecil B. DeMille has
completed the filming of "Man
slaughter." with Thomas Meighan,
Leatrice Joy and Lois Wilson in the
principal roles. This production was
started on May 1. ' ,
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The mobs used in the coming pro
duction of "Mortal Clay" are made
up of the principal singers from the
Royal opera house in Stockholm.
Few pictures can boast of such ag
gregation of players as enhance the
beauty and personnel of this picture.
The soloists and chorus alike were
so interested in the making of this
picture and so taken with this new
phase of the art of acting that they
volunteered tNeir' services for the
mob scenes, beig paid for them just
the same as any other "extras."
Rex Ingram Has New, Big
: r " Production Ready.
Title Not Yet Chosen for Photo
drama Written by Producer.
REX INGRAM will ' go to New
York within a . month, taking
with -him the first complete print
of his latest production for Metro
Pictures corporation. -
This screen creation by the di
rector of "The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse. '"The Conquering
Power" and "Turn to the Kignt, is
a photoplay written by Mr. Ingram
himself. Its title has not as yet
been chosen.
The new Ingram screen drama
deals with the merciless career of
a beautiful woman tn-Faris whose
hunger for luxury is greater than
her love for the young man of her
heart. She is tne ceieDratea s&areaa,
who does not turn to romance when
she can afford it; and her story is
told a modern Parisian maid for the
purpose of implanting the moral,
"Marry the man you love;"
Those who have been privileged
to see flashes of the new Ingram
picture, or photographs of scenes,
have expressed the opinion that it
"HOKUM" OR SUBTLE COMEDY
QUESTION AGAIN IS DEBATED
Suggestions of Broad Comedy Deftly Handled by Paramount Director
Cruze in Big Production of "The Old Homestead.
BY CHARLES E. MCCARTHY.
j1"--OKUM" or subtle comedy,
I I which? The man who could
answer this question suc
cessfully and then proceed to draw
the line with a master's finesse in
the direction of a motion picture
could make a fortune.
It is an old question that has
been argued since the making of
motion pictures began and before
that on the legitimate stage. Some
pure "hokum" pictures have been
successful, but with the develop
ment of the art the tendency has
been toward 'a higher type of
comedy.
And what is "hokum?" The origin
of the term is a mystery. In an
earlier day everything broad and
crude and rough that was designed
to create a laugh fivas called "slap
stick." "Hokum" is one of the out
growths of "slapstick" something
not quite eo obvious as pie throw
ing, but something incapable tf
bringing out the fine points ' of
humor in telling a story.
A man falls over a chair and
smashes his hat that's "hokum."
Someone pulls a chair from under
a fat man about to. sit down also
"hokum." Contrasted with what
of Jensen and yon Herberg jl
will strike a new and bizarre note
in photoplay production. The sub
ject is exotic and fascinating for
its atmosphere of lurking disaster.
The part of Zareda is played by
Barbara La Marr. who will be seen
first as Antoinette de Mauban. the
adventuress of "The Prisoner of
Zenda," as produced by Mr. Ingram.
Story, scenario and direction of the
new and unnamed picture are all
the work of Mr. Ingram. The pho
tography was done by John F.
Seitz, who was responsible for the
high order of camera work In pre
vious Ingram productions.
It has been announced that Mr.
Ingram's next production will be
Victor Hugo's "The Toilers of the
Sea." This picture will be made on
the Maine coast this summer, as
the California coast does not faith
fully represent the rugged scenery
of the Channel islands, wherein the
scenes of this classic story are laid.
Helene Chadwick didn't buy any
dresses when she was in New York,
but she did take back with her to
the Goldwyn studio some new-fashioned
old-fashioned mitts.. They are
made of lace and are elbow length.
These gloves have short fingers in
them Just like the kind grandmother
wore. Didn't Thomas Carlyle say
once that any style would come
back if given time? , -
"When I first saw the old statue
of Horace Greely in New York." said
T. Roy Barnes, now working in
Paramount pictures, "it eeemed to
speak Jo me and say:
. "'Go west, young man and get
into motion pictures!'
"Of course I' wasn t at all certain
then whether I wanted to go into
pictures but now I know It was a
wise move that sent me westward."
"Money, Money, Money" is going
to be made known to a large percen
tage of the population of this coun
try if the author, Larry Evans, has
anything to say about it. First of
all. "Money, Money, Money" Is the
only story this noted novelist and
magazinist ever penned directly for
the screen, and when it was finished
B. P. Schulberg, president of the
Preferred Pictures, bought it be
cause of the possibilities the chief
role 6ffered to Miss McDonald, quite
aside from the fact that it is a story
that is altogether out of the ordi
nary as regards the matter of plot.
As an exponent of "The Danger
ous Age." Lewis Stone is said to
may be called legitimate humor a
laugh aroused by a subtle situation,
it may be seen that ..the broad joke
is admissible only in pure farce.
whereas the other form may be
used even in serious drama by way
Igft contrast.
jamea ruze, wno is cwnniuei cu
an expert in directing legitimate
comedy pictures, makes use of what
may be termed the happy medium
in his Paramount picture "The Old
Homestead." There are suggestions
of broad comedy when Theodore
Roberts surreptitiously hands the
doughnuts to the forlorn suitors of
Aunt Matilda or gives Happy Jack
(T. Roy Barnes) a dollar when the
latter, with one leg through the
picket fence, appears to be minus
a limb; but Cruze has the taste and
experience never to carry his com
edy to the regions of burlesque. He
invests the famous rural drama
with beautiful scenic backgrounds
of the old homestead and the quaint
New Hampshire village; he intro
duces moments of true pathos and
contrasts them vividly with hearty
laughs which somehow leave the
impression that they cover tears.
"Hokum" has its uses, but must
be handled with gloves unless broad
comedy is aimed at comedy border
ing on burlesque.
WHEELER
OAKMAN
is splendid as the half
breed in this big drama
of wigwams and' draw
ing rooms. If. addition
to its famous story, it
offers a scene of stam
peding, cattle and cow
pony riding that for
pure 100 thrill is pos
itively without equal.
have one of the greatest roics of
his career in the production of that
name now being made by John M.
StahL The picture presents the emi
nent dramatic artist in a role per
fectly suited to his typo and excep
tional ability. Among the other stars
engaged to date are Ruth Clifford
and Myrtle Stcdman. The story is
an original by Frances Irene Keels,
and was adapted for the screen by
J. G. Hawks and Bess Meredyth.
NOW
PLAYING
With 1
JOHN J3MITH
WENT 0 JAIL
BECAUSE HE
WOULDN'T TELL
A photoplay replete with
heart interest and tense
dramatic situations with
lovely Mary Astor head
ing the supporting cast.
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